We’ve moved a couple times in the last few days. We moved from a park we liked to a different park so we could get WiFi. It turned out to be something off someone’s home computer. It was wireless, but it was SlowFi. Verrrrrrry SlowFi. And the park was full of stickers. Judy couldn’t take Annie for a walk without putting her snow boots on, then pulling all the stickers out of the muttluks afterward.
We moved again today. A real WiFi park, right outside the entrance to Bentsen Rio-Grande State Park. Not so many burrs. This is better. Since we’re right outside the prime bird viewing ground of Bentsen Rio-Grande, logically, we drove fifty miles upriver to Salaneno. We wanted to visit the Bird Lady. She and her husband have spent the winters on their property there for over twenty years, feeding birds and chasing away the grackles. Their property is open every day to anyone who wants to stop and visit and watch the birds. They like to shut it down about four pm each day and we didn’t get there till late so we only had twenty minutes.
In twenty minutes, we did get to see lincoln’s sparrow; chipping sparrow; goldfinch; yellow rumped, and orange crowned warbler; ground, inca, white-winged, and white-tipped dove; cardinal, black crested titmouse, green jay, brown jay, altimira oriole, and audubon’s oriole. No new birds, but we’ve never seen the white-tipped dove, the brown jay, or the two orioles anywhere else. Reports are that there are only twelve brown jays in the entire united states.
The birding frenzy is almost over. We’ll head back towards reality and winter soon. In the meantime, we hear there are scaled quail and bewick’s wrens at Falcon State Park.
